New research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago.
The discovery of fossilized footprints made in what’s now New Mexico was a bombshell moment for archaeology, seemingly rewriting a chapter of the human story. New research is offering further evidence of their significance.
New research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico s White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago
By CHRISTINA LARSON (AP Science Writer) New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew about when our ancestors arrived in the New World. The footprints were discovered at the edge of […]
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